This fun bronze-tinted shimmery sun kissed lip balm is perfect for summer. With a fantastic cocoa peppermint scent, great glide, and some shimmer and shine, I’m loving having this in my purse this summer.
A base of beeswax, cocoa butter (USA / Canada), coconut oil, and sweet almond oil (USA / Canada) gives your lips a lovely dose of moisture along with a summery glow.
A touch of castor oil (USA / Canada) adds extra shine to this lip balm, and when paired with a touch of bronze mica, this lip balm lends a shimmery sun kissed shine.
With a quick melt and pour assembly you can easily whip up a fistful of these lip balms for gifts, or to stash in ever conceivable spot you might ever need a quick dose of tingly moisture for your kisser. Brilliant!
Sun-Kissed Lip Balm
8g | 0.28 beeswax
12g | 0.42oz virgin coconut oil
10g | 0.35oz cocoa butter (USA / Canada)
4g | 0.14oz castor oil (USA / Canada)
16g | 0.56oz sweet almond oil (USA / Canada)
10–15 drops peppermint essential oil (USA / Canada)
1–2 dashes (1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon) bronze mica (as you like it, basically) (I use these spoons to measure out tiny amounts like “dashes”)Combine the beeswax, coconut oil, cocoa butter (USA / Canada), castor oil (USA / Canada), and sweet almond oil (USA / Canada) in a heat resistant glass measuring cup. Place the measuring up in a pot of barely simmering water to melt the oils.
Once melted, remove the oils from the heat. Let cool a bit, and stir in the peppermint essential oil (USA / Canada) and bronze mica. Stir the mixture with a flexible silicone spatula until it has cooled enough to be thick enough to support the weight of the mica. Quickly decant into lip balm tubes. They’re ready to label (I love these cute labels) and use once they’ve set up.
Fills 8 lip balm tubes.
Don’t have the carrier oils called for in the recipe? Read this for a guide on how to choose appropriate alternatives.
Ooooooh…I’m SO making this first with the 24kt gold mica in my stash while I try to find this gorgeous bronze! Thanks for sharing and greetings from far away West Africa!
OOoh lovely! That’ll be downright beautiful 🙂
Thank you for this recipe . May I ask if I can replace coconut oil with Shea butter or do you think it will make the lip balm harder to apply even in this hot summer .
Hi Marmar! In most recipes this would be a poor substitution, but I have tried it in this recipe and it does work out reasonably well. The final lip balm will be harder, though, and is prone to going grainy after a few weeks or months.
Love to make this for my sis as a gift. But she cant have anything with mint. Of any kind. What other opt would you use.
Hi Kathy! You could just go with no EOs—the cocoa butter and coconut oil make for a lovely smelling lip balm on their own. You could also use some lavender if you like the taste of it. Thanks for reading & DIYing with me!
I love the color. I can’t wait to make it. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Priscilla!
Dearest Marie!
Another awesome post!! You are amazing!!
I am such a klutz pouring/decanting these oils! Do you have any handy tips??
Thank you!!
Thanks, Leslie!
When I pour my lip balms I always start by lining up all my tubes right next to each other so I don’t have far to go between them. After that, I make sure to use a glass with a pouring spout, and then work quickly. You can also buy a filler tray, but I’ve never bothered investing in one.
I took an empty egg carton and flipped it upside down; most of them already have a circle shape dented into the bottom; I poke through with a screwdriver and then inserted my lip balm tubes into them; I’m too clutsy and think I would knock over my tubes if they weren’t secured.
The bonus with this is if I do spill a little bit it all lands on the egg carton and I just recycle it lol, so easy clean up!
How clever! What a great solution 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing, Alicia!
Hi Marie! Thank you for your wonderful posts!
Was wondering if castor oil makes a difference -i.e. does it make the lip balm creamier and easier to glide? If I change it to almond or apricot oil, will it not glide as easily?
Was wondering too if shea butter is a good ingredient for lip balms or would it feel too “dry” ?
I have never made lip balms but I would like to. Thank you! 🙂
Silvia, in my experience, the Castor gives extra moisturizing feeling for longer periods, it adds also amazing softness and there is nothing alike to replace it in these tasks. Let’s see what Marie thinks 🙂
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Hi Silvia! The castor oil adds shine to the lip balm. If you replace it with another liquid oil, you’ll just have a slightly less shiny lip balm, which you might want 🙂
I’ve used shea butter in lip balms before and quite like it, though it can go grainy after a while, which some people don’t like.
Thanks for reading & DIYing with me!
Hi Marie!
Would you consider modeling your creations in future posts? I (and others no doubt) would love to see what they look like on people!
Thank you 🙂
Hi Evie! I do try, but it takes time to get a selfie I like, and sometimes I’m too darn busy 😛
Hi dear Marie!…very nice recipe! (as always!, of course!)…and the color is very nice for the summer….i want to ask you dear,if we can use it on the lips…(for a bronze look)/or on the eyelid/(in a lesser amount,of course)/. However, the color is very nice for summer!!. I wish you well, and you’re vacation this time!. Greetings, Athanasia.
Hi Athanasia! This is really best suited for the lips—I think you’ll find it a bit thin and glossy for the eyes 🙂
Hi Marie.. This looks really nice.. Can you tell me which quality mica did you use?.. When I am looking online I can see mica of different colors and also on some sites they sell mica flakes.. I am not sure which one should I purchase.. And while using different colors, is it ok if I mix different colors?
Hi Tejashri—I used the bronze mica from New Directions Aromatics. For an application like this you will want a finer mica, not larger flakes, so the lip balm feels smooth on the skin. And yes, you can definitely blend a few different micas or oxides to get different colours 🙂
These look LOVELY!!! Can I just say… I am loving how many cocoa+peppermint recipes you post 🙂 it’s an obsession for me so I am excited to have so many different recipes to try!
Thanks, Laura! I am rather in love with cocoa butter + peppermint EO for lip balm 🙂 Mmmmmm.
Hello Marie! I just made this for my daughter’s back to school make up bags. I happen to love the feel of this balm, but my youngest was hoping to have a more stiff, chapstick feel. How much can I bump up the beeswax to accomplish this? [ A percentage is fine! :o) ] I also snuck in a French Vanilla balm flavor as a surprise…..and I got “I wish it were minty!” Sigh….shoulda added the peppermint oil, lol!
Hi Sabrina! I’ve been meaning to develop a stickier lip balm for a while now, but I’m afraid I haven’t done the experiments so I don’t have an answer for you right now. You should check out my liquid oil and beeswax experiments, though 🙂
Hi,
I noticed that this recipe had a different ratio of beeswax and cocoa butter, and liquid oils. I think that if you look at some of the past recipes, they use a little more beeswax, and less cocoa butter and liquid oil. I’ve made the peppermint sugar lip scrub recipe and it is really nice, and more like a chapstick consistency that you might be looking for. My sugar didn’t stay in suspension, so it was more like regular lip balm.
Marie – was the new formulation to help the mica stay in suspension? I have placed another NDA order (okay, 2 orders and one from Organic Creations since the Saffire blue shipping is outrageous for me) and am looking forward to making some of the tinted items!
Good eye! This lip balm is about 16% beeswax while I tend to stick to about 20% for most other lip balm recipes. I wanted this one to be a bit thinner and glossier for the summer 🙂 Even so, my 20% beeswax lip balms are still glossy, so if you’re looking for something a bit stickier I’d recommend using even more than that (perhaps around 25%?) and see what you think 🙂
Enjoy all your new goodies! There are few things more exciting than a box (or three!) of new ingredients in the mail 😀
I wondered if you knew if this would be safe if it came in contact with a 14 mo old? I wouldn’t use it on her, but I constantly use chapstick so I wondered if the ingredients were safe if I were to have it on my lips and kiss her? It would probably be touching her skin and mouth, I’m sure she might taste some as well from kisses and eating or drinking after me..
Hello! The only thing I’d be concerned about would be the essential oil—it’s not generally advised to combine babies and essential oils 🙂 Have you checked out my naked lip balm? It’d be perfectly baby safe!
I’m just wondering what the g in the amount on ingredients stands for. I’m from North Carolina and not sure.
Hi Cindy! “g” is short for “grams”, a unit of measure used in the Metric system over the majority of the world 🙂 It’s equal to about 1/28th of a weight ounce (not a fluid ounce). I’ve written a two-part primer on the metric system here and here to get you started 🙂 I love using grams because they are so much smaller than ounces—it makes it mucho easier to make smaller batches of a recipe, which is really necessary when you DIY as often as I do!
This is a summer lip balm,correct?
What Fall/Winter Lip Balm recipes do you have?
Email me the recipes if you could please.
Also where can the tubes be purchased?
Thank You
Hi Ralph! This is a rather summery lip balm, but there’s no reason you couldn’t use it in the fall or winter—I certainly do. Here’s one that’s basically this recipe, but with a silver shimmer for a more wintery look.
If you scroll up to the big box above the comments I link to my suppliers—they all sell lip balm tubes 🙂
You’re actually so adorable, oh my gosh! xx
(I conclude after stalking your blog for like 2 hours, amazing work!)
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Awww, thanks Sandra!
Hi Marie, I finally got all the ingredients to make this recipe, it went awsome, thank you so much for sharing it, I love your blog
Wonderful! Thanks so much for DIYing with me 🙂
Hi, love your page! My husband and I made your sun balm and I found it to set super fast… Also it was pretty soft so we popped it in the fridge to set. Does that happen to you? How long would you leave it until you use? Thanks
Hi Mel! It should set up to a useable texture within 20 minutes, if not less. I’ve taken this lip balm to Costa Rica and submitted it to some pretty high temperatures, but if the ambient temperature in your home is ~35°C, that might be the problem. If you’re finding it too soft, you can always re-melt and add another gram of beeswax 🙂
Thanks Marie, I tried it again yesterday and it looks ok. Do you get holes in the middle of your balm when it dries? I filled mine up to the top and it looked good and then sank a little…
I often do, though I find I can often prevent this by filling the lip balm until it domes a bit at the top with surface tension… though this can be a bit tricky as one drop too many will ruin the effect.
Hi,
I have made this a few times and some of my lip balms are harder than others. Some are really soft. Could you advise why this would be the case? A mis measure of the ingredients?
Hey Mel! Is this between batches or within the same batch? Are you measuring everything by weight with an accurate scale? Have you made any changes to the recipe? Are you stirring everything together before pouring?
Hi Marie! It happens with the same batch. I did add a little more of caster oil but this was just because it came out a bit quick.. Would that do it? I def stir everything..
Assuming you are doing everything by weight with an accurate scale this shouldn’t happen, so you might want to check your scale for accuracy. Are you certain everything has thoroughly melted as well?
OMG the color is absolutely gorgeous and soooo pretty!!! Lol. I am going to attempt to make this but I would like a version that I could put in a pot instead of a tube. Can you suggest what I could change in the recipe? Thanks! Kathy:)
Just put it in a pot instead of a tube ;P
I modified this recipe and it worked pretty well so I wanted to share. I don’t currently have any mica’s. I only made half in case it didn’t work out.
5g beeswax
6g olive oil infused with alkanet root
5g mango butter
2g castor oil
8g sweet almond
pinch of cocoa powder
it is really quite lovely. I was worried the alkanet infused olive oil wouldn’t be enough tint so I added the cocoa powder. I can’t wait to get some mica’s to try some of your lip balms. And cocoa butter. I don’t have any just softer butters. But it works. Thanks Marie.
Cool, thanks for sharing! Enjoy your new tinted lip balms 🙂
Hi Marie! I just wanted to know if Candelilla wax would work the same as beeswax?
It won’t; check out these experiments 🙂
Hi Marie, this is absolutely beautiful! I love the color but I don’t like lip balms in a tube, I find them too hard and I live in cold weather so I would like something soft. Can I make this for a squeezable lip tube?
Tnx!
Kathy
Check out this formula 🙂
Hi Marie! I love all your recipes. I have difficulty in using micas. My lip balm have nice color but when tested, I only got the shimmer on my lips but not the color. did I do anything wrong? i use the same amount of micas as you. Thank you in advance
Hey Adelle! This formulation is not intended to tint the lips, just to add a bit of shimmer. Please read this to learn more 🙂